Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

Arthur Smith

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

Zac Goldsmith

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

I find it appalling that legislators would wish to gag employers so that they will not communicate with employees regarding public policies and civic issues, when we know employees would very much want to know what employers think about issues.

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

Gustave Moreau

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

Hugh Mackay

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Bram Fischer

Unless this whole intolerable system is changed radically and rapidly, disaster must follow and appalling bloodshed and civil war become inevitable.

Peter Baynham

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

David Walton

When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.

Nick Harkaway

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

It is appalling the way they deliberately set out to mislead smokers about the toxins in tobacco smoke knowing full well these machine measurements do not reflect how people smoke and therefore how much carbon monoxide and other toxins they are inhaling. We need a major overhaul of the system for measuring toxins in tobacco smoke.

Katherine Mansfield

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Mary McAleese

Year after year their hearts and homes have opened to those bereaved who came here in sad pilgrimage. Out of such humanity we see the power love has to transcend even the most appalling evil,

Chris Patten

We do think the appalling economic circumstances in the West Bank and Gaza, that the economic blockade by Israel, that the non-payment of revenues by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, that these things make the security situation worse,

Richard Blumenthal

This situation is appalling and outrageous and we hold accountable everyone who has contributed to this blatant disregard for health, safety and property and the severe damage done,

Complying with this legislation is costly for our business so to find out that a government funded-body is encouraging companies to ignore the law is appalling and puts us at a significant disadvantage to those companies simply because we are law abiding.

Nigel Dodds

This is an odious and appalling attack on ordinary people,

Arjun Makhijani

This is appalling that the National Cancer Institute did not make this available as soon as possible. It's been too long sitting on this.

There was a strange silence from him for a while, ... But that's rather nice. You need to have some objectivity sometimes. I have to be right for something, otherwise it would be appalling if I just got a part because I'm sleeping with the director.

Every householder's nightmare became a reality for the Monckton family. What followed was an appalling episode of violence.

Paddy Ashdown

Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

Tessa Jowell

It would be completely inappropriate in view of this appalling tragedy,

Michael Hirst

TV drama - not always, but on the whole - were pretty appalling and very secondary, too. No one expected it to be like watching a movie; that was the point. But I think when you start watching 'Vikings,' it is like watching a movie - you're taken somewhere else.

David Sullivan

What can you say about last night? It was appalling and we, the board, are as gutted as everybody else.

Geoff Hoon

The public must remain vigilant, we must continue to take care to deal with these kinds of appalling threats to our safety and security.

It is unacceptable that people who are able to pay a people-smuggler and make their way through several countries where they may avail themselves of protection, are getting a more favorable outcome than people languishing in the most appalling circumstances in refugee camps around the world,

Force-feeding birds to have livers up to 10 times their size is appalling and most citizens are shocked to learn this.

In general, I'm opposed to any industrialization of Long Island Sound, ... It's appalling to think of plunking something so large out there. We enjoy watching the tankers and freighters go by from where I live, but I don't think anybody's going to appreciate something that big sitting out there on a permanent basis.

Richard Johnson

That is appalling to me because we all need help no matter what the situation. That driver should not have left the scene. They should have turned around and assisted in the helping of that young victim.